Yogita LimayeSouth Asia and Afghanistan correspondent
Family handoutOne year since Harshita Brella was strangled to death in the UK, there is a sense of…
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Family ask why killer has not been caught 12 months on
Family handoutHarshita Brella’s body was discovered in the boot of a car in London on 14 November last year -
Tehran’s ‘Kneel Before Iran’ statue rekindles debate over nationalist turn
For over forty years, the theocracy purged ancient Persian history from schoolbooks, replacing it with post-Islamic narratives. But after the 12-day conflict with Israel, officials have turned to the distant pre-Islamic past to rally a divided…
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British man dies after being shot during robbery in Ghana
A British man has died after being shot during a robbery in Ghana on Friday, police say.
Ashraf Qarmar Parvez, 68, was shot after he tried to stop an attempt to steal his phone at a drinking spot in Tema, a city to the east of the Ghanaian…
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IRGC intelligence dismantles hacking network tied to Mossad, foreign media
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Intelligence Organization has announced a major counterintelligence success, apprehending the leader of a hacking group known as “Backdoor.”
According to Iranian media reports, the…
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BBC boss Tim Davie resigns after criticism over Trump speech edit | Media News
Davie’s exit caps a week of attacks on Britain’s public broadcaster, with Trump’s press secretary describing BBC as ‘100 percent fake news’.
The director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has resigned after a row over…
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Iran faces unprecedented drought as water crisis hits Tehran
EPAIran – especially its capital, Tehran – is facing an unprecedented drought this autumn, with rainfall at record lows and reservoirs nearly empty. Officials are pleading with citizens to conserve water as the crisis deepens.
President Masoud…
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Republicans’ Plan To Redirect Obamacare Subsidies Takes Shape
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, says that during the current federal government shutdown that has been driven in part by Democrats’ insistence that Affordable Care Act tax credits be extended, Republicans are working…
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Is Mali about to fall to an al-Qaeda-affiliated armed group? | Al-Qaeda
Armed group piles pressure on the landlocked Sahel country and its military government.
Fighters affiliated with al-Qaeda have blocked fuel deliveries to Mali’s capital for two months, bringing the city of Bamako to a standstill.
They’ve sealed…
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World Bank, in letter to US, backs draft UN resolution on Gaza
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The World Bank backs language in a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Gaza that would authorize a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body,according to a letter to…
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